Youths of this country are gifted and should be supported and nurtured for a better Solomon Islands. Dr Alice Pollard, a specialist in gender and development and a prominent women’s leader in the Solomon Islands highlighted this powerful message during an interview with the Solomon Star at the youth market event hosted by the Youth…
Market vendors from the Honiara Central Market Vendors’ Association (HCMVA) will work together to make the Honiara Central Market a safe, healthy and economically conducive workplace for all by strengthening communication with Market Management, representing market vendors’ needs and interests and identifying opportunities for market vendors to learn and develop new skills. The market vendors…
ART Gallery in Honiara is busy this week with the hosting of the youth market. A number of youths and people are taking the opportunity to sell and promote their products. One of the mothers who also took the opportunity to promote her product is Hannah Akquilla, 44 from Kakara village in West Kwarae’e. At…
The youth market which is currently underway in Honiara has given an opportunity for the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) to address youths with useful messages. Members from the police community policing team have been displaying information through presentations and sharing of crime leaflets and pamphlets to the youths for information purposes when the…
With nominations for the Westpac Women’s Education Grants closing on 24 April, the bank encourages all women and girls who would benefit from financial assistance to afford the cost of their education to apply for a Grant before it’s too late. Westpac is offering a total of 6 education grants in Solomon Islands this round…
MORE than 50 members of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) youths from the main White River Church and its associated churches have successfully concluded a three days camp out in North West Guadalcanal over the weekend. The youth members from the main White River SDA church its three hive churches at Forest Valley, Kakabona and…
THE newly permanent constructed Adaliua South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) building in east Honiara was officially dedicated on Saturday. This was after the community has completed the facility early this year. According to the chairman of the building Samuel Satini, the building was constructed since 2012. Mr Satini stated that the new building was built…
Rev. Fr. Angel Fernandez Artime is the Superior General of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), affectionately called “Rector Major”. He is the 10th successor of Don Bosco, the first to visit Solomon Islands. The SDB is one of the largest religious orders of the Catholic Church. Founded on 26.01.1854 in Turin (Northern Italy) for…
SICK patients at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) on Sunday afternoon got a bit of change in their diet after members of the Dorcas society visited them and provided them with food. Members of the Dorcas came from the three main districts within Honiara. The program on Sunday is part of the Dorcas’ annual event…
Church members of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Solomon Islands recently donated to the low level of the Blood Bank at National Referral Hospital (NRH) in Honiara. It is customary for people to donate blood to assist only their close family members in times of a medical emergency. But Self- Reliance Centre Coordinator of…